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In two TED talks that I watched ([1] and [2] below) the narrators had experienced some kind of a personal handicap. One author was a blind girl and she was talking how she was taking advantage of being blind by imagining everybody she meets as the most beautiful person the world and the other author was this guy who is paralized and can’t move but with the help of robots he is able to do things most of healthy people can’t or don’t normally....
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For a while we (Paulo Caroli and TC Caetano) have been cataloguing many ideas and activities for retrospectives. We’ve created a 7-step agenda with steps and activities to help you to structure your next retrospective.
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We just added a new offering to our pricing page , offline server. This option isn’t for everyone since it requires quite a lot of effort to setup and in fact includes less functionality than even the pro subscription. The main reason for this offering is the old-school regulated industries where a cloud build solution just isn’t an option. In those cases you can still enjoy the benefits of our cloud architecture within the or..
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Reading through Ben Bajarin’s recent article on Tech.pinions , it reminded me of the incredible disparity between those who inhabit the Apple sphere and regular people with regards to knowledge of Apple’s intended direction. This lack of understanding leads uninitiated reporters and laypeople alike to frame Apple in the same way they would a much more familiar business such as Target or Walmart: one expands into groceries, the other follow..
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Fix the misaligned label in iOS 7's printer controller by swizzling UIPrinterSearchingView's layoutSubviews method.
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In direct opposition to Christopher Mims’ belief that the technology industry as a whole collectively failed to accomplish virtually anything significant — see John Gruber and Marco Arment’s refutations — in 2013, John Siracusa outlines eight areas of ten that Apple met his expectations well enough to merit a respectable grade. Personally, I would place much more stock in this list. Permalink.
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What we may not have realized is that once the browsers don’t suck, being an HTML and CSS “guru” isn’t really a very marketable skillset. 80% of what made us useful was the way we knew all the quirks and intracries of the browsers. Guess what? Those are all gone. And if they’re not, they will be in the very near future. Then what? A lot of folks who came up from that time and headspace have diversified their skillsets since. Many are now ..
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Everything you render in a browser, whether it’s a blog post or a tweet or a video, has a performance cost. At the very least, you will be asking the browser to render a handful of tags and text elements that make up your user interface. That structure, a subtree in the browser’s DOM, can be quite complicated and memory intensive. The more tags and elements you render, the slower the browser is going to perform, and the more memory it i..
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I’ve been seeing questions about how actionHero’s routes interact with the actions. Here’s a bit more of an explanation (which I’ll keep to…
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What we may not have realized is that once the browsers don’t suck, being an HTML and CSS “guru” isn’t really a very marketable skillset. 80% of what made us useful was the way we knew all the quirks and intracries of the browsers. Guess what? Those are all gone. And if they’re not, they will be in the very near future. Then what? A lot of folks who came up from that time and headspace have diversified their skillsets since. Many are now ..
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Yesterday I linked to an article by Tyler Cowen where he made a strong case for Coin’s inevitable devaluation as a currency, citing the ease with which one could create a cryptocurrency potentially superior to Bitcoin as the catalyst that will push its value further and further down from the high it currently enjoys. Ironically, today a new service made its way into the top ten on Hacker News called Coinage Beta, which allows anyone to cr..
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As Marco said in his post linking to AnandTech’s new Mac Pro evaluation, “For Mac OS reviews, read John Siracusa. For Mac reviews, read Anand.” This has become widely accepted over the last few years, and rightly so: these two writers epitomize every aspect of excellence within their respective fields. That’s why I sat down with AnandTech’s latest article, despite having no intention of buying a Mac Pro within the foreseeable future. Afte....
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This is a report of business activities in 2013. (Similar to the report for last year, 2012 ). My employee MartinL (software development) has remained with me for most of 2013, although returning to university in the latter half of the year. New employee DavidZ (software development) has joined. I have been getting into outsourcing for a few years. Not for the obvious reason of reducing customer costs (that’s just a side-effect),..
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All of this leads to the question; is there any company more successful at controlling the public narrative than Amazon? Nothing it cares about ever leaks. Almost all of the press coverage, even the negative stories, runs to a script that Bezos could have written — ‘We do amazing things to get low prices to customers’ and ‘it’s incredibly hard to compete with us’. Of course, both of those things may well be true.” Everyone loves to prai..
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Hi All, I’ve finally got around to dedicating some time to paper boy over Christmas. Change Log: Fixed offline reading functionality (also now allow you to download just one or all feeds). More work is coming on this to rework it for speed and reliability also UI isn’t perfect at the moment. * Edit : may still have some issues, under testing some came up. Updated reader view to be nice and like it used to be (this is experimental at ..
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This morning I decided to wake up earlier and take a different route to work on Deider (the bike). The ride didn’t have to take as long as it did - I managed to stop every three minutes to admire the view and take bad photos on my phone.
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Probably Approximately Correct — a Formal Theory of Learning
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www.jeremykun.com
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12 years ago
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In tackling machine learning (and computer science in general) we face some deep philosophical questions. Questions like, “What does it mean to learn?” and, “Can a computer learn?” and, “How do you define simplicity?” and, “Why does Occam’s Razor work? (Why do simple hypotheses do well at modelling reality?)” In a very deep sense, learning theorists take these philosophical questions — or at least aspects of them — give them fleshy mathemat..
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Probably Approximately Correct — a Formal Theory of Learning
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www.jeremykun.com
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12 years ago
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eng
In tackling machine learning (and computer science in general) we face some deep philosophical questions. Questions like, “What does it mean to learn?” and, “Can a computer learn?” and, “How do you define simplicity?” and, “Why does Occam’s Razor work? (Why do simple hypotheses do well at modelling reality?)” In a very deep sense, learning theorists take these philosophical questions — or at least aspects of them — give them fleshy mathemat..
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Probably Approximately Correct — a Formal Theory of Learning
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www.jeremykun.com
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12 years ago
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eng
In tackling machine learning (and computer science in general) we face some deep philosophical questions. Questions like, “What does it mean to learn?” and, “Can a computer learn?” and, “How do you define simplicity?” and, “Why does Occam’s Razor work? (Why do simple hypotheses do well at modelling reality?)” In a very deep sense, learning theorists take these philosophical questions — or at least aspects of them — give them fleshy mathemat..
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Marco Arment in Smart Watches and Computers On Your Face , after explaining technology’s inexorable progression since the 1980s, went on to posit that perhaps our current devices have reached the point of “good enough” with the advent of current-generation smartphones and, in some use cases, tablets; perhaps, at this point, further “innovation” with products such as Google Glass and a smart watch of sorts serves little purpose, because m..
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Sitting here trying to decide the best way to fulfill my goals for this website , I found Nathan Barry’s post — and, subsequently, his past “year in review” updates — simultaneously inspiring and disheartening all at once. On the one hand, we have an amazing success story: after quitting his job Nathan has nearly doubled his salary every year, to say nothing for his readership and all his other impressive accomplishments; on the other hand..
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An interesting article from Tyler Cowen that gained considerable popularity on Hacker News a few days ago, for very good reason: although a difficult read at times, his article makes a strong case for Bitcoin’s inevitable decline. Also worth reading, Tyler linked to an article by Dan Kervick in a similar vein to this one along with another of his own from November, China, and the soaring price of Bitcoin , both worth checking out. P..
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What an awesome vehicle. Not only does it look great, it drives exceptionally well too, and can handle quite literally any terrain thrown at it. It’s a pity, then, to see such a rugged, utilitarian SUV like this one fade away only to have a more stylish, inarguably less capable one replace it. How disappointing. Permalink.
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I predicted this a while ago in an IRC conversation during a 5by5 broadcast, and many jumped at me for criticizing the practice of promoting one’s business on Facebook. To be fair, I made this statement prematurely: it took Facebook another year or two to actually begin diminishing their position as a viable source of attention. Now, though, I cannot say that this development surprises me in the least. Permalink.
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At MediaMath we’re big users of Elastic MapReduce. EMR’s incredible flexibility makes it a great fit for our analytics jobs. An extremely important best practice for any analytics project is to ensure your local dev and test environments match your production environment as much as possible. This eliminates the nasty surprise of launching a job that takes hours only to discover that it fails late into the run due to some unmet depende....
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At MediaMath we’re big users of Elastic MapReduce. EMR’s incredible flexibility makes it a great fit for our analytics jobs. An extremely important best practice for any analytics project is to ensure your local dev and test environments match your production environment as much as possible. This eliminates the nasty surprise of launching a job that takes hours only to discover that it fails late into the run due to some unmet depende....
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Hi All, I had a play with AditiCloud’s Brewmaster today to see what it can do. The basic idea is that you can quickly deploy one of their templates for SQL, Active Director etc into your Azure IAAS subscription. I picked SQL Always On Availability cluster, which if you’ve ever tried to do manually is a bit of pain, and set it off to do it work. After some simple config, name etc, I clicked go and went to get some breakfast.
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Some fun updates for vagrant hackers… I wanted to use the venerable clustered SSH (cssh) and screen with vagrant. I decided to expand on my vsftp script. First read: Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt and Vagrant vsftp and other tricks to get up to speed on the background information. Vagrant screen : First, a simple screen hack… I often use my vssh alias to quickly ssh into a machine, but I don’t want to have to wa..
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Some fun updates for vagrant hackers… I wanted to use the venerable clustered SSH (cssh) and screen with vagrant. I decided to expand on my vsftp script. First read: Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt and Vagrant vsftp and other tricks to get up to speed on the background information. Vagrant screen : First, a simple screen hack… I often use my vssh alias to quickly ssh into a machine, but I don’t want to have to wa..
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We shouldn’t really trust this kind of statistics, I know, but when my favorite language comes out as a clear winner, I can’t resist and take them for good. Python is the “language of the year” according to the PYPL index : it had the biggest increase in popularity share in 2013. PHP had the biggest decline. Meanwhile, Java continues to have the highest popularity share among the programming languages.
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You’re so damn smart — I’ve told you how awesome I think you and the solutions you’ve built…they’re amazing. You have so many awesome things on your hard drive you built that it would blow the world away if only they knew. You created Facebook before there was Facebook and PayPal before there was PayPal. But recently I’ve heard you ask, “how can this junk software out there be so popular?”…why are all these idiots more successful than me?
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We shouldn’t really trust this kind of statistics, I know, but when my favorite language comes out as a clear winner, I can’t resist and take them for good. Python is the “language of the year” according to the PYPL index : it had the biggest increase in popularity share in 2013. PHP had the biggest decline. Meanwhile, Java continues to have the highest popularity share among the programming languages.
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Gurpreet is the Tech Lead for the Humanitarian Software Program (HSP) at Thoughtworks. Read his account on how Thoughtworks, as part of the Organizing Team, helped drive the All Women Hackathon at the Grace Hopper Women in Technology Conference for the second consecutive year, successfully. In this article, he talks about the preparation that went into making the event a success.
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There is no doubt “Big Data” has taken the tech world by storm. I have spent much of 2013 talking about analytics and data science with people all around the US, going to conferences like Strata, and immersing myself in this world for the last 12 months. Over the course of this journey, I have started to notice some patterns about how various people in various kinds of organizations understand and invest in analytics.
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This is a pretty amazing technology demonstration of what is possible using the currently available open source tooling, open source data, and using cloud service providers for hosting and content delivery. It was written by Cameron Beccario (@cambecc). Check it out below. This post Supercomputer Weather Visualization in a Browser first appeared on Dan Stroot's Blog
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Usually one might expect an article by an experienced polyglot speaking a dozen of languages when reading such a headline. But in this case, it’s just a German teenager who’s only fluent in German and English, while also learning Spanish and French.
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Usually one might expect an article by an experienced polyglot speaking a dozen of languages when reading such a headline. But in this case, it’s just a German teenager who’s only fluent in German and English, while also learning Spanish and French.
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Earlier this week Matt Gemmell posted Who to Read in 2014 , where he pointed out ten writers and explained why he felt everyone should pay attention to their work in the upcoming year. At the end of his post, after listing his five favorite articles from the last twelve months, he called on other writers to provide their version of this list. Never one to back down from a challenge, I have done so with a bit of a twist: in addition to th..
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A collection of my favorite cabins from Cabin Porn and other similar sites, beginning with The Watershed . A seventy-square-foot building in the woods of Oregon specifically designed as a writer’s retreat, I love the idea of a small, designated area set apart in which to conduct one’s most personal work. Although given the type of articles I traditionally post I feel such an environment would not be particularly conducive to my writing, ..
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